2022 World Press Photo Contest Winners Announced — Blind Magazine

The World Press Photo Contest recognizes the best photojournalism and documentary photography of the previous year. This year, the winners were chosen out of 64,823 photographs and open format entries, by 4,066 photographers from 130 countries.  World Press Photo of the Year: Kamloops Residential SchoolAmber Bracken, Canada, for The New York Times Red dresses hung […]

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Global jury chair Rena Effendi said about this image: “It is a kind of image that sears itself into your memory, it inspires a kind of sensory reaction. I could almost hear the quietness in this photograph, a quiet moment of global reckoning for the history of colonization, not only in Canada but around the world.”

Colonisation and environmental loss the focus of winning World Press Photos

The contest recognises the best in photojournalism and documentary photography from around the world.

via The Sydney Morning Herald: https://www.smh.com.au/culture/art-and-design/colonisation-and-environmental-loss-the-focus-of-winning-world-press-photos-20220407-p5abjl.html

The legacy of colonisation and environmental loss were the focus of the winning photographs in this year’s World Press Photo Contest.

The Regional Winners of the 2022 World Press Photography Competition

The World Press Photo organization has announced the winners of its 2022 competition. Now in its 65th year, the competition recently switched to a new

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The World Press Photo organization switched to a new regional model for the 2022 competition, as it found that there was an imbalance in representation among entrants, stories, and winners. In 2021, only 7% of entrants came from South America, 5% from Southeast Asia and Oceania, and 3% from Africa. The organization felt that this was not representative of the photojournalistic talent around the world, and sought to change its methods to reflect that.

Film Photo Award Fall 2021 Finalists – LENSCRATCH

Today we share the Student Project Finalists and the Visionary Project Finalists the in the Film Photo Award Fall 2021. The Film Photo Award Fall 2021 Juror, Larisa Leclair shares some remarks about the selections: In the 1990’s, just before the integration of digital photography into the college curriculum, I was a student getting my

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Today we share the Student Project Finalists and the Visionary Project Finalists in the Fall 2021 Film Photo Award .

The shortlist candidates of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2021 and their submitted photo series.

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The Epson International Pano Awards is the largest competition for panoramic photography and has announced its 2021 winners, with a misty cypress tree panorama awarded the top prize.